Do you sometimes try to fool yourself? Do you act like everything is OK between you and God. But the reality is although you attend church and act spiritual you know that you have things and ways in your life that are not what He would approve. Maybe there are some things you do that are directly contrary to His commands? The Apostle John warned us against this in his epistle.
1 John 1:5-10 NASB
5 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; 7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
Walking in the Light means the things that we do that do not honor God will show up pretty easily. Actually our sin becomes easy to see not only for ourselves, but also for others who walk in the light. Praise the Lord that He has never told us we had to be perfect, but John reminds us that we can be clean and forgiven. But we must confess our sin and let God do the cleaning. Too many Christians become self righteous and think the things they do are making them somehow holy and righteous. This is so far from the truth. All our works, all our efforts fall so short of what He can do through us. Isaiah with great poetic flair wrote about our self righteous acts condemning them.
Isaiah 64:6 NASB
6For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us wither like a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
We are frail creatures of dust with passions that make us turn away from The Lord with selfish and arrogance too often. Realization of this troublesome fact is a great first step to staying on the path in the Light.
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